Surfacing by Margret Atwood
Short Summary Surfacing, a novel by Margret Atwood is a part detective novel, part psychological thriller. This book is the story of a recently divorced talented woman artist who goes in search of her father along with her lover Joe and her two friends, David and Anna. The story is interwoven with lies, deception, violence, sex and death. The story, though quite interesting, is a bit to comprehend. The unnamed narrator narrates the story like a pendulum, oscillating between the past and present. Everything around her seems to be a reminder of some incident in the past. Plot Overview The unnamed narrator returns to Quebec after years of absence to search for her missing father. She brings her boyfriend, Joe, and a married couple, Anna and David. On the way to a village near her father’s island, the narrator visits her father’s friend Paul. Paul can provide no new information on how to locate the narrator’s father. A guide named Evans takes the narrator and her companions to her